U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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News about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 10, 2015

Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities report arrest of 2,059 foreigners, all convicted criminals, in early March; more than 1,000 of those arrested had committed felonies, and some had been previously deported. MORE

Mar. 1, 2015

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they will deport at least 150 Bosnians who they believe participated in war crimes during 1990s conflict in former Yugoslavia; say they have identified 300 immigrants who came to United States and concealed their involvement in wartime atrocities. MORE

Dec. 17, 2014

United States Senate confirms federal prosecutor Sarah Saldana as director of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and former national security adviser Antony Blinken to be deputy secretary of state; Senate has confirmed 41 of Pres Obama's nominees with less than 60 votes, rule changed when filibuster was abolished for all but Supreme Court nominations. MORE

Dec. 12, 2014

Federal lawsuit offers glimpse into potential turmoil at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as it moves to implement Pres Obama's sweeping immigration actions; suit brought by Patricia M Vroom, top immigration prosecutor in Arizona, contends she was subjected to bullying and harassment after she raised legal concerns about policy of prosecutorial discretion in deportation cases. MORE

May. 2, 2014

More than 600 suspected gang members are arrested in Homeland Security Dept's latest crackdown on street gangs, part of a larger Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiative that started in 2005 to target street gangs with international ties. MORE

Sep. 18, 2013

Review of use-of-force policies used by federal agents guarding nation’s borders finds that two systems that track complaints do not have category for excessive use of force; civil rights groups say shortcoming underlines problems of having fragmented mechanism to track misconduct; call for better tracking procedures. MORE

Aug. 1, 2013

Federal District Judge Reed O'Connor dismisses lawsuit by immigration enforcement agents seeking to halt Obama administration program that gives reprieves from deportation to young undocumented immigrants; O'Connor's ruling, surprise turnaround from earlier opinion, concluded that his court did not have jurisdiction to decide the suit. MORE

Jun. 18, 2013

John T Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announces that he is stepping down after four years to work for a private bank; Homeland Security officials say resignation is voluntary. MORE

Apr. 9, 2013

Editorial welcomes settlement in lawsuit filed after inept and egregious raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2006 and 2007, which will curb some of agency's worst practices. MORE

Apr. 5, 2013

Federal authorities agree to establish new policies governing conduct of immigration officers during raids, including restrictions on how and when agents can enter private homes; agreement is part of a settlement of a six-year-old class action lawsuit accusing authorities of unlawfully forcing their way into the homes of Latino families in New York metropolitan area. MORE

Mar. 24, 2013

New federal data shows that on any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at Immigration and Customs Enforcement centers; nearly half are isolated for 15 days or more, point at which psychiatric experts say they are at risk for severe mental harm; United States has come under sharp criticism at home and abroad for relying on solitary confinement in its prisons more than any other democratic nation in world. MORE

Jan. 26, 2013

Federal Judge Reed O'Connor in Dallas rules that group of federal immigration agents can proceed with lawsuit that seeks to halt Obama administration program granting reprieves from deportation to young illegal immigrants. MORE

Jan. 8, 2013

Report issued by nonpartisan research group Migration Policy Institute shows that Obama administration spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement in 2012, significantly more than was spent on all other major federal law enforcement agencies combined. MORE

Dec. 27, 2012

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement audited more companies for illegal immigrants on their payrolls in the 2012 fiscal year than in previous years. MORE

Oct. 18, 2012

Operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Detroit sets off protests from Latino and church groups after officers detain two illegal immigrants as they drop their children off at school. MORE

Oct. 9, 2012

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency releases Jose Antonio Vargas, prominent immigrant rights advocate who was arrested in Minnesota on a traffic violation; officials say he does not present a risk to public safety. MORE

Sep. 2, 2012

Suzanne Barr, the chief of staff to the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, resigns after accusations that she created a sexualized office culture that was hostile to men; Barr had been on leave because of the allegations, which she disputes. MORE

Aug. 22, 2012

James T Hayes Jr, a top New York official of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, files a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit alleging he was shunted out of a high-level position in the agency in favor of a less-qualified woman because he is a man. MORE

Apr. 3, 2012

Federal agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, in a six-day nationwide sweep, arrest 3,168 immigrants who have been convicted of felonies or have repeatedly entered the United States illegally. MORE

Feb. 15, 2012

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announces agreement to pay $350,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by 11 Latino immigrants who were arrested in 2007 in a series of improperly conducted immigration raids at their homes in New Haven, and agrees not to deport the plaintifs; settlement appears to be the largest ever paid by the United States government in a lawsuit over residential immigration raids. MORE

Jan. 15, 2012

Editorial scores the union that represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for refusing to let its members attend training sessions that are designed to change the way the agency catches and deports illegal immigrants; argues that the change is needed and relatively straightforward, and the union's intransigence could slow its implementation for weeks. MORE

Jan. 8, 2012

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal agency in charge of deportations, is conducting far-reaching training course to push its officers and prosecutors nationwide to focus their efforts on removing immigrants convicted of crimes rather than illegal immigrants with clean records and strong ties to the country; union representing some 7,000 deportation officers, however, has so far not allowed its members to participate in training, saying strategy amounts to orders not to enforce the law. MORE

Oct. 28, 2011

Op-Ed article by former Manhattan District Atty Robert M Morgenthau argues the tired and poor that the Statue of Liberty once welcomed are now often part of huge backlog of deportation cases; says Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency often deports immigrants guilty only of technical violations, and its detention and removal policies are inhumane and ineffective. MORE

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By JULIA PRESTON and STEVEN YACCINO; Julia Preston reported from New York, and Steven Yaccino from Chicago

Just weeks after the Supreme Court largely reaffirmed the Obama administration's immigration enforcement powers in its legal battle with Arizona, federal officials are facing a new, politically tricky clash with local authorities over immigration,...

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The Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent who was fatally shot at the federal building in Long Beach on Thursday was receiving counseling about his job performance before he opened fire on a superior officer, the F.B.I. said Friday. Ezekial...

At least one agent from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is dead and another is injured after a shooting at the federal building in Long Beach on Thursday. The agency confirmed in a statement that one agent had been killed at the scene,...

Immigration authorities announced on Wednesday that they will drop their case against Mohammed G. Azam, a young Bangladeshi man who had been fighting deportation since 2003, when he registered with a special post-9/11 program for Muslims. In...

A federal undercover drug investigation erupted in gunshots on Friday evening, when a plainclothes agent opened fire on a suspect who steered an SUV at him on Manhattan's West Side, the authorities said. Officials said that one suspect was...

March 27, 2011, Sunday

AGENTS from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday seized a 1994 Cizeta V16T, a rare supercar that is illegal to drive or own in the United States. The car was imported on Feb. 17, 2001, on a one-year bond to have mechanical work done,...